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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

Friday, 15 November 2013

Give People of Fukushima a Voice -Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima 福島避難者の声に耳をかたむけて － 福島からのささやきの声

Give
People of Fukushima a Voice -Threshold: Whispers of Fukushimahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlYVozn5va0Hello!
I'm Toko, a
photographer/documentary filmmaker/ visual artist/musician. On March
11, 2011, I was shocked by news of multiple disasters occurring in my
native country of Japan. Since then, I've been trying to find
ways to be supportive of the children who survived the disasters.
I've been hearing many kids who live close to the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant disaster area say something like, "There
is much radiation in Fukushima. But we are NOT the radiation, and not
contagious. Please don’t discriminate against us. Please know much
about us in Fukushima!"
Their voices inspired me to make a documentary about the many
fascinating people who still live there! So my artist friends and I
started this project together!☆日本語字幕入のプロモーションビデオはこちらです☆『日本の皆様へ』メッセージへのリンクです☆日本語の寄付して下さった方への特典の説明へのリンクです

To
complete this film, we
need to make 2 more trips to Japan (The end of November 2013 and
April / May 2014),
and need financial support to continue. We received a fiscal
sponsorship from a non-profit organization called From
the Heart Productions. With their support, I decided to do this
campaign. The
donations are all tax deductible.
Thanks to our sponsor!We
actually need more than $20,000 to complete this film, but we decided
to set our goal at a more humble amount – $10,000. Help
dispel ignorance about the situation in Fukushima that has made kids
suffer discrimination---
I'm hearing about many mental difficulties among kids in Fukushima,
resulting from bullying (and cyber-bullying). This is sad and
irrational, but ignorance and fear are powerful motivators. I think
that knowing more about the actual people in Fukushima might awaken
healthy thoughts, truth, and empathy inside each one of us, and help
to connect people. Perhaps it might also encourage us to ask
ourselves some fundamental questions about our own humanity.Help
make a better change for the future, for people in Fukushima and also
for all of us on this planet---
Their stories have made me re-think the situation in Fukushima, its
people, and life happiness. They want you to know their stories and
think about them for yourself - what we can do to nurture a healthier
future?You
can help make this change together!For
more info:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/give-people-of-fukushima-a-voice-threshold-whispers-of-fukushima--2

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Evacuation

In Fukushima there was 2 million population including 360,000 children.

The Japanese government evacuated about 100,000 (87,000 out of 20km radios of the plant), and most of them are still in Fukushima prefecture. 65% of Fukushima prefecture became the radiation control area (a level of the contamination is more than 37,000Bq/m2), so therefore most of them are still in radioactively contaminated area unless they evacuated out of Fukushima prefecture into safe area voluntarily without any financial help from the government. Voluntary evacuees within Fukushima prefecture is 23,551, voluntary evacuees out of Fukushima prefecture is 27,776 as of 22/9/11. Even Fukushima-city which is 50km away from the plant is no longer safe, especially for children. The government statistics shows that only about 36,000(including about 20,000children, ) left Fukushima prefecture. And most of them left Fukushima Prefecture voluntarily without any financial support from the government.(October 2012)

Food Safaty

Amount of allowable ionizing radiation in foodincluding rice in Japan is now 100BQ/kg for cesium.

So this could mean that contaminated food which they can’t sell in Japan could be exported to the countries that have more relaxed regulations, such as EU countries and Thai (500) and Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippine, Vietnam, Malaysia (1000) and USA (1200).

*A Woman Who Refuses to Give In to A New Nuke PlantPlease send her a postcard: Atsuko Ogasawara, owner of “Asako House”, built in the center of the planned Ohma Nuclear Power Plant premises. She would appreciate it if you could send a post card (just with a few words is ok). Receiving a mail as much as possible helps her position to keep up anti nuclear campaign. Here is “Asako House”’s address: Ms. Atsuko Ogasawara, c/o Asako House, 396 Aza Ko-okoppe, Oh-aza Ohma, Ohma Machi, Shimokita Gun, Aomori

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Fukushima disaster is not over. It seems getting worse. Continuous leaking of ionizing radiation into the atmosphere (10million Bq/hour or more) and into the sea.. There seems no end and no solution to stop it. There is no good result in decontamination work. 27 children developed thyroid cancer. More reports of deformed babies. More people of dying of leukemia and sudden death.… Yet the Japanese Government wants all evacuees to go back to their home land by 2020. Even trying to sell nuclear to other countries, claiming it’s going to be safe. I hope information from this blog to give you views from the victim’s side of stories, health issues and related information on nuclear disaster, especially about Fukushima disaster. We should remember and learn lessons from ongoing tragedy happening in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

100% nuclear free: Japan shut down its last reactor on 15/9/13 – There has been no shortage of electricity since 3.11

*IAEA ＆ WHO downplays the danger of radiation. (Refer to the comment on Feb.2012)

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant up date news

(October 10, 2012)

The Fukushima disaster is far from over, with 10million BQ every hour of ionizing radiation (80% is coming out of reactor 2) leaking continuously into the air (as of October, 2012). No human can get near to the reactors. Even robot can only stay a couple of hours. Reactor 4 is still the most worrying, with 1535 spent fuel rods in the pool. A further6, 375 spent fuel rods are stored in a shared pool only 50 meters away from the Reactor 4. After the disaster, the maximum allowable dose of ionized radiation was raised to 250mSv/yfrom 100 mSv/y for Tepco workers (3000 workers every day) until the situation is restored to normal. Because of the dangerously high level of ionized radiation at the site, they can only work for a limited time, which makes progress slow, and more and more workers have been exposed to the maximum radiation, which means that it could be difficult to find enough people to work there continuously during the next at least 40 years work of decommissioning.

Nobody knows how and when we will be able to say that the Fukushima disaster is over.